I think the problem tems from my first attempt to emerge glibc-2.3.2-r9
which failed, and now portage somhow think it has parts of it installed.

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Jason wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:25:15 +0100, Lars Roland <roland@diku.dk>
> wrote:
>
> >When i try to install a package portage displays
> >
> >INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-glibc-2.3.2-r9
> >
> >is this generel warning, or is there somthing I can do about this (eg.
> >unmerge it) -
> >
> >
> >Thanks
>
> Try emerging glibc-2.3.2-r9.
>